[2], [xvi], 678 pp. Half title present. (8vo) 23.7x15.2 cm (9¼x6"), period half calf and cloth. First Russian Edition.

First edition in Russian of the first volume of Marx's great polemic. The Russian language editon is the first translation into any language. "Giving his imprimatur, the censor, one Skuratov, had written 'few people in Russia will read it, and still fewer will understand it'. He was wrong: the edition of 3000 sold out quickly; and in 1880 Marx was writing to his friend F.A. Sorge that 'our success is still greater in Russia where Kapital is read and appreciated more than anywhere'" (PMM). Printing and the Mind of Man 359.